Instrument for setting buttons



(No Model.)

J. F. ATWOOD.

Y INSTRUMENT POR SETTING-BUTTONS. No. 298,155. l Patented Mey 6, 1884..`

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JAMES F. ATVOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

INSTRUMENT FOR lSETTING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,155, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed October 27, 188,3. (No model.) y

p70 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JAMES F. A'rwoon, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button-Setting Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

This instrument is for use in connection with attaching buttons to fabrics, &c.,`by means of wire or metallic fastenings; and it is especially ada-pted for use in connection with the method described in Letters Patent granted to me October 2, 1883, and numbered 285,781.

In the drawings in said Letters Patent there is shown in Fig. 5, and described in lines 54 to 60, inclusive, in the specification, the end of the wire fastening twisted and bent back upon itself in order to save the fabric from injury. It is mainly for the purpose of producing this bend or turn in the Wire while it is between two thicknesses of cloth that I.

haveV invented the herein-described device.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective View of my device. Figs. 2 and 3 are views of the instrument in different positions assumed when in use. Fig. 4 is a view of the upper side of the under of two thicknesses of cloth to which, a but-A ton has been applied by the method and wire fastening shown and described in the Letters Patent above referred to, and which fastening has been manipulated by the device herein described.

A and B represent two jaws pivoted together after the manner of plier-jaws, and Cl is the ordinary spring for spreading the jaws apart.

For locking the jaws when closed I provide a slide, D, having a ylongitudinal slot, d, secured to the jaw A by a screw, E. This slide is placed on the jaw A,near thepoint where it passes through thev jaw B-i. e., near its pivotal point; By pushing on` the thumbpiece D thereon the slide is forced over the edge of the jaw B and the jaws are locked, as in Fig. 3.

The wire fastening shown and described in said Letters Patent having been applied to the button and used for attaching the samein accordance with the method describedin saidV .Letters Patent, the end of the wire is lleft straight between the two thicknesses, as shown in Fig. 4 of said patent. nates in a conical needle, H, and the jaw Bin a concave former, I, preferably providedwith the notches I. The conical needle His forced through the under thickness, c, of the fabric and under the portion of the wire fastening z, between the thicknesses a a', transversely to said fastening, as shown in Fig. 2. The in strumentis then closed and locked, its handles elevated, and a half-turn givento it, which will bring the instrument into `the' position shown in Fig. 3, and produce the bend or loop desired in the fastening, and shown in Figs. 3 and 4. I) represents the button.

A portion of the former I is represented in Fig. 3 as broken out, the better to illustrate theA operation of the device.

It is not absolutely necessary that the de-v vice-shall be locked during any part of the 0peration, but there must be-suflicient force used to allow the former I to shape the wire.

A knife-edge, Z, is formed on the blade L, pivoted at L to one of the handles, so that a wire placed in the slot n of the handle will be cut off by a movement of the blade across the slot. This blade is of the same shape as -the handle, and is secured to the inner side thereof, so that it will not interfere with the safe handling of the instrument.

The blade is useful in trimming off any projecting wire.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l 1. In a button-setting instrument, the com,- bination of two jaws pivoted together, one of said jaws terminating in a needle adapted to be inserted in fabric and forced under a wire vbutton-fastening therein or thereunder, and

the other jaw adapted to grasp said fabric and wire fastening and hold them firmly against said needle, substantially as' and for the purpose set forth.

The jaw A termij In a button-setting instrument, the combination of two jaws pivoted together, one of said jaws being provided with the conical needle H and the other with a suitable former, I, substantially as and for the purpose specied.

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3. In a button-setting instrument, the coinprovided with the knife-edge l, and said hanbination of the jaw A, provided with lche eonidie being provided with the slot n, substan- 1o cal needle H, and the jaw B, provided with tially as and for the purpose set; forth. lche former I having` the notches I', substan- 4 1 5 tially as and7 for the purpose described. JAMES F ArlVOOD 4. The combination, with lche handle B, of XVitnesses: the blade L, said blade being pivoted to and HENRY XV. VILLIAMS, of the same general shape as said handle, and JosErH ISHBAUGH. 

